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Friday, February 13, 2015

Katerina Rutherford

T-019 Festival of Life I gouache 18x18.5 $450

Paintings "Festival of Life 1" and "Festival of Life
2"

This is my 3rd Obsession and 4th Theme Division. for this year's Spring Obsession I wanted to create a joyful painting, one that celebrates the creative events put forth every year by the Ironstone Winery.For the connection between wine and art, I tried in both paintings to express through a wonen-themed allegory of dancing in tulips, playing inside vineyards of daffodils in a wine glass.I reducted my color palette to two tones to get more expression out of the painting. Finally, I used cubist abstract forms I found while being inspired by cubist artist Vaclav Spala (1885-1946), who comes from my home country, the Czech Republic.

T-020 Festival of Life II gouache 18x20.75 $550

Angels Camp and San Francisco motifs accepted into the OPEN Division 2015

I am a plein air
painter. Over the past 10 years I have focused more and more on plein air
painting. My major topic on canvas over the last five years has become cities.

Angels Camp:

O-125 Gold Rush House oil 15x18 $800

Angels Camp is an amazing
gold rush town in Northern California, situated right on top of the Mother Lode
of gold. Angels Camp was founded during the Gold Rush days in 1849/50.

O-126 Main Street Angles Camp 2014 oil 26x19 $1200

Walking along Angel
Camp’s famous frog jump sidewalk on Main Street has a feel like time stopped during
the Wild West days, except for one difference: you will not see horses and
buggies, but big American cars and pickup trucks. This contrast of big cars and
trucks and the Wild West architectural styles became a new approach to my plein
air artistic visions.

San Francisco:

O-127 Powell Street in San Francisco 26x21 $1500

In May 2014 I spent
one week painting in downtown San Francisco. During that one week I worked on only
two motifs, one in the morning and the other in the afternoon. My experience of
painting cityscapes has personally been worth it!

Powell Street is
one of San Francisco’s typical, breathtaking streets that winds up and down the
city’s hills…cable cars snaking up and down, appearing and disappearing again at
the top of another hill. Next to the cable cars are vertical and horizontal
lines of cars and swarms of people busily moving about the city… I found this
to be a perfect morning motif.

I
realize that except for San Francisco’s buildings, everything else is in motion.
I simply became an animator trying to capture the blink-of-an-eye on canvas
over the course of five mornings. The City by the Bay’s fickle weather blessed
us that week with consistent, warm sunshine.